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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Study: Common exercise recommendations may not be sufficient to prevent weight gain.

Reuters (5/12, Cohen) reports that a new report suggests that the commonly-recommended exercise routine of 150 minutes of moderate intensity workouts per week, or 60 minutes of vigorous exercise, suggests that that level is insufficient to prevent weight gain. The study, which examined 19,000 adults over 22 years, found that only those that exceeded those recommendations managed to avoid serious weight gain.
        Study suggests breaking up exercise better than longer sessions. TIME (5/12, Park) reports that the latest study published in the journal Diabetologia suggests that individuals should “think of exercise the same way you think of food, and break it up into snack-sized sessions rather than marathon ones.” The study “showed that parsing physical activity into short bouts of intense exercise is better than working out once a day.” Times says that while the trial was “small,” it “provides some encouraging ways to make exercise more efficient.”

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